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Harbin Snow & Ice Festival 2014

Nearly 10,000 workers were employed to build the ice and snow sculptures, which require about 180,000 square metres of ice and 150,000 square metres of snow, for the Harbin Snow $ Ice Festival. We tip our hat to them as the finished products simply look amazing.

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Workers stab iron pikes into the frozen Songhua River as they extract giant ice cubes to make sculptures for the upcoming 30th Harbin Ice and Snow Festival, in Harbin. Each ice cube weighs about 250 kilograms (551 lb). SHENG LI/REUTERS